News
02-December 2010
– LGC’s
Mike Ludlow speaks at 4th Annual Extractables and Leachables
conference in
Berlin
LGC’s Mike Ludlow speaks at Berlin conference on extractables*
and leachables
Mike Ludlow, a senior Study
Manager in the pharmaceuticals team at
LGC, an international leading provider of trace and complex
services to the pharmaceutical and food sectors, will present a
selection of case studies on ‘Extractables and Leachables* traced
to labelling and production processes’ at E&L 2010 in Berlin,
Germany on 8-9 December 2010.
Extractables & Leachables 2010 will bring together a
comprehensive representation of best practice examples in the
pharmaceutical packaging industry, as well as the latest regulatory
updates, legal perspectives and technical innovations from
pharmaceutical companies and materials suppliers.
This year’s conference, which will run in parallel with the PIRA
Plastics & Paper in Contact with Foodstuffs forum, will bring
together packaging safety professionals from the both the
pharmaceutical and food & beverage industries to share ideas
and discuss regulatory developments in the packaging
environment.
Co-chairs of the Extractable and Leachables conference are: Dr
Carsten Worsoe, Novo Nordisk, Denmark and Dr Thomas Egert,
Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany.
Mike Ludlow's presentation on Thursday 9 December at 11.30 am
will include a series of case studies illustrating the wide variety
of potential additional sources of contaminants in pharmaceutical
products. These include several examples of process-related
materials being introduced to the drug product and an investigation
where a number of analytical techniques were combined in order to
identify a series of by-product contaminants.
For more information visit the Extractables & Leachables
2010 website at www.eandl-conference.com
* Extractables: Compounds that can be extracted from
product-contact materials under exaggerated conditions
(temperature, time and surface area) when in the presence of an
appropriate solvent or solvents.
Leachables: Compounds that leach from product-contact
materials when in direct contact with the formulation under normal
processing conditions.
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